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Clerk
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Human
Composition
Simple
Countable
Plural form
clerks
Examples
The clerk processed the customer ’s return and issued a refund.
02
a person employed in a store to assist customers and handle sales transactions
Dialect
American
American
Examples
The clerk helped me find the right size shirt.
to clerk
01
to perform duties as a clerk, typically in an office, administrative, or legal setting
Grammatical Information
Composition
derived
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
clerk
3rd person singular
clerks
Present participle
clerking
Past simple
clerked
Past participle
clerked
Examples
She clerked at the law firm for two years after graduation.
Lexical Tree
clerkship
clerk
